Daily Practice · Key Stage 2
August 1963 5-a-day
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Every sheet in August 1963
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st August 1963Sort this conjunction as coordinating or subordinating: 'although'.
- 2nd August 1963Choose 'was' or 'were': 'He ___ waiting outside.'
- 3rd August 1963Choose a or an: '___ university'
- 4th August 1963Add a comma to this fronted adverbial sentence: 'Every morning she feeds the chickens.'
- 5th August 1963Give one synonym for 'fast'.
- 6th August 1963Add a pair of dashes around the extra information: 'My uncle who lives in Leeds is visiting this weekend.'
- 7th August 1963Choose the correct form: 'The doctor recommends that she ___ (rest / rests) for a week.'
- 8th August 1963Choose the correctly hyphenated compound noun: 'mother in law' or 'mother-in-law'
- 9th August 1963The word 'steep' can describe a slope. Give an antonym for 'steep' as used in: 'The path up the hill was steep.'
- 10th August 1963Complete the word with ie or ei: 'fr _ _ nd'.
- 11th August 1963Turn 'easy' into an adverb of manner.
- 12th August 1963Add the correct form: 'the (dog) ___ bone' (one dog owns the bone)
- 13th August 1963Rewrite using a possessive pronoun: 'Those shoes are not my shoes.'
- 14th August 1963Write one sentence of your own using the adverb of possibility 'probably' correctly.
- 15th August 1963Choose the correct helper verb: 'They ___ (have/has) already left.'
- 16th August 1963Rewrite in the passive voice, dropping the 'by' agent for a more formal tone: 'Scientists discovered a new species.'
- 17th August 1963Does the sentence introducing a bulleted list need a colon at the end? 'Remember to bring the following'
- 18th August 1963What does the word 'gloomy' suggest about a room's atmosphere?
- 19th August 1963Rewrite putting the subordinate clause first: 'Ali finished his homework although he was tired.'
- 20th August 1963Give a synonym for 'said'.
- 21st August 1963Is a comma needed after 'Later' in 'Later we went home.'?
- 22nd August 1963Combine: 'The cake was delicious. Grandma baked the cake.'
- 23rd August 1963Identify the words marked by commas: 'The cake, which took three hours to bake, was delicious.'
- 24th August 1963Rewrite these two sentences as one, linking them with a cohesive device showing contrast: 'Jess loves maths. She finds English difficult.'
- 25th August 1963Explain why a semicolon, not a comma, is needed in 'I finished my homework; then I watched television.'
- 26th August 1963Add an apostrophe to show possession: 'The dogs collar was red.'
- 27th August 1963Put 'go' into the past simple (irregular).
- 28th August 1963Add the possessive apostrophe: 'the cat toy' (one cat)
- 29th August 1963Which is Standard English: 'I done my homework' or 'I did my homework'?
- 30th August 1963Add 'never' in the correct place: 'They eat vegetables.'
- 31st August 1963Identify the words in brackets: 'The castle (built in 1204) is now a museum.'